If you need a detailed overview of differences between versions, ask for the
RCS log files. In this file you'll find only a very brief listing of major
changes or additions.
Before you submit any feature requests, please read the TODO file.
from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 (2002-October-13)
- bugfix: crash when selecting a network with unknown ID in the network
selection configuration dialog (uninitialized pointer variable; crashes
not on all platforms). Thanks to Udo A. Steinberg for reporting this bug.
- weekday names are now printed in the local language (defined ba the locale
setting on UNIX). Thanks to Thierry for the suggestion.
- fixed the case of French theme names: first character is now upper case
- fixed "Time" column header drop-down menu (was broken with 2.3.0): the NEXT
entry behaved like NOW, discrete times used to jumped to the first programme
which was running at the given time, opposed to the first which started at
or after the given time (a matter of taste, but I found it to be confusing)
- improved "Date" column-header drop-down menu: it now has as many entries as
days covered by the database (also depends on current filter setting)
- improved "Getting Started" section in the manual
- Windows: fixed permissions for TV card driver: before, admin or power-user
status was often required to start the driver (i.e. to start acquisition);
now there's a workaround that lets the driver "try harder" to grant this
right to everyone.
Also note that the nxtvepg Internet homepage has moved from tripod.com to
http://nxtvepg.sourceforge.net/ because the old site no longer could handle
the traffic. Many thanks to the sourceforge.net team for accepting the project
and to Thomas Schlebusch and Peter Schumacher for providing temporary mirrors
during the transition period.
from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 (2002-September-17)
- bugfix in user-defined context menu entries: variables using modifiers
(e.g. ${start: %H:%M %d.%m.%Y}) sometimes had trailing garbage; this
bug was introduced in 2.2.0. Thanks to Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs
for pointing this out.
- bugfix in decoding of description texts (newlines were not processed
correctly sometimes); also improved text display by inserting paragraph
breaks when there is a completely empty line in the original description text
- added "duration" filter, so that programmes ouside of given running time
length boundaries can be suppressed (e.g. filler programmes which are
less then 10 minutes long)
- added possibility to manually resize all listbox columns by dragging the
right border of the column header menu buttons (not possible if headers are
disabled in the "show" options of the configure menu). Note that the
automatic resizing of the network name column was dropped in favour
of this feature.
- timescale windows are now always made large enough to display the time range
covered by all programmes in the database (formerly only the next 5 days were
covered, which was by far not enough for the German provider Kabel1)
- added zoom and help buttons to the timescale windows
- improved key bindings and default keyboard focus in main browser and dialog
windows; CTRL-F in main window now opens the text search dialog;
CTRL-C opens the context menu; digit keys now toggle shortcuts;
Return tunes the channel like pressing the Tune-TV button
- the search text history is now accessible from inside the text search filter
dialog (by pressing the down cursor key or clicking the arrow button next to
the text entry field)
- the "Refresh" mode of the EPG scan now allows to remove databases of obsolete
providers which no longer transmit Nextview EPG (e.g. Pro7 or TV5).
Thanks to Frank Mauler for pointing out the need for this feature.
- added a "Load all used" button to the sorting criterion filter dialog
which fills the sorting criterion selection listbox with a list of all
codes that are actually used in the current database. This allows a quick
overview which criterions will produce any matches when filtered for.
- Linux only: fixed tuner frequency setting (in particular the EPG scan) for
SECAM/PAL multi-norm tuners. Thanks to "Keuleu 36" for debugging this problem
- UNIX only: fine tuning offsets and TV norm in the .xawtv file are now
evaluated for the EPG scan
- Windows: enabled multi-card support (see changelog of version 2.2.0)
- internal reorganization of the interface between Tcl/Tk and C modules
(using the "object-based" Tcl interface for function arguments and results)
Note that this release comes with a new version of the Win32 DScaler TV card
driver (files dsdrv4.sys and dsdrv4.vxd) which is not compatible with K!TV
versions 1.2.0.2 and earlier. Except for multi-card support nxtvepg will
work with older drivers too, hence if K!TV complains you can simply replace
the driver files with older versions.
from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 (2002-August-24)
- Major bugfix: nxtvepg crashed randomly due to a memory overwrite bug
in the short-info description text display function. The bug was present
in all previous versions but surfaced only now because some very long
description texts were transmitted by the German provider Kabel1.
- Bugfix in database merge: merge failed when no networks were manually
selected yet
- Network name column in the programme listing now automatically adapts
its width so that network names no longer have to be cut off.
- Windows: bugfix in K!TV interaction: with K!TV versions up to 1202
VPS/PDC decoding was disabled so that for some networks no title info
was displayed in K!TV.
Thanks to Thierry Ménétrier for his excellent feedback.
from 0.7.4 aka 2.1.2 to 2.2.0 (2002-August-18)
- network selection config dialog: allow to specify time windows for each
network (e.g. for ARTE 19:00 - 06:00 o'clock). Programmes that are
completely outside this window are suppressed in the listing.
- PDC theme descriptors were translated to French and German; the language
can be either selected automatically or manually. Thanks to Matthieu for
triggering this improvement and for the French translation.
- the programme database can be exported into a text file in TAB separated
format, so that it can be directly loaded into an SQL database.
(This feature has been added to support the HTML converter
E*plore EPG nexTView written in PHP by sysmik.)
- bugfix in the EPG scan due to which on channels which could not be
identified via VPS/PDC no EPG provider was found. Thanks to Helge
Kreutzmann for pointing out this problem.
- manual size changes of the help window are now remembered; also
improved a few details in help text formatting
- Windows: upgraded to version 8.3.4 of the Tcl/Tk library (from 8.3.2);
all OS: prepared for the latest version 8.4(b1)
- Windows: prepared support for using different TV card than a connected
TV app. so that EPG can be acquired from a different channel than you're
currently watching (note: requires update of DSdrv4 drivers, which are
not part of this release yet to maintain compatibility with K!TV)
- Windows: support for the K!TV plugin "ZoomOut": automatically add a
"Record this show" entry to the context menu (right mouse button)
- Windows-95 compatibility: resolved two missing symbols
(this was already supposed to be in 0.7.2 but forgotten to include)
from 0.7.3 to 0.7.4 aka 2.1.2 (2002-June-02)
- bugfix TV application interaction: no EPG information was forwarded to the
TV app under certain circumstances (only if the station name was unknown
to nxtvepg and the VPS/PDC id was unchanged since the last request)
from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3 aka 2.1.1 (2002-May-30)
- bugfix PDC decoding: didn't work at all before (this affects the EPG scan
and TV app interaction). Thanks to e-nek for helping to debug this problem.
- added PDC and P8/30/1 "status display" text decoding; currently used only
during EPG scan for networks without CNI -> e.g. MTV is now identified
- main window can be scrolled by dragging the mouse outside the window
- acquisition database window can be opened before acq enabled
- important EPG scan messages now marked by use of bold font
- Windows-95 compatibility: resolved two missing symbols
- Windows Bt8x8 driver: added new error checks for driver installation
from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2 aka 2.1.0 (2002-May-20)
- Windows: Enabled TV application interaction feature and added documentation
for the demo and debugging tools tvsim, vbirec and vbiplay.
- Windows: Added option "Hide on minimize", i.e. when the main window is
minimized, it's removed from the taskbar and an icon is installed in the
system tray with a small popup menu.
- Windows TV app. interaction: VPS/PDC is now evaluated if EPG acquisition
is disabled (or -in the future- if EPG acq. uses a different TV card)
- Windows TV card input dialog: warn if TV app. was changed but config not
loaded; same for TV app. interaction dialog if "Test" button was not used.
- Windows Bt8x8 driver DSdrv: improved robustness by attempting uninstall
and re-install of the service if driver start fails (with certain types
of errors)
- Windows TV card input dialog: list only as many TV cards as are available
(do a scan of all TV cards upon first Bt8x8 driver start; requires that
the driver was started at least once since program start)
- Windows daemon port finished: option -daemon is now available (note that
the daemon currently does not support TV app interaction)
- bugfix EPG scan (Linux only): after an EPG scan acquisition could not be
enabled because the VBI device was allegedly busy. The cause was that an
acquisition thread kept running after the EPG scan.
- the wheel mouse now scrolls only 5 lines instead of 1 page and the cursor
remains on the previously selected item.
- improved automatic mode selection for internal/remote acquisition during
startup: wait until an connection is completely established until changing
the default mode to remote acq in the rc/ini file (esp. when connecting
via TCP/IP)
- EPG scan is no longer prevented with "cannot start scan while in
client/server mode" unless currently connected to an acq daemon.
- EPG scan: reset 45-seconds timer when EPG is found to be transmitted on a
non-default teletext page nunmber. This should fix the problem that Canal+
is reliably detected only when in "slow" mode.
- removed the last remaints of long integer usage to improve 64-bit CPU
compatibility.
- bugfix: crash when there was an .xawtv file with zero channel definitions
- bugfix: the EPG scan was not stopped when the program was terminated by a
signal or logging out, causing a crash.
- bugfix: crashed with SEGV when the acq timescales were open when the EPG
scan was started
- bugfixes in timescales: network highlighting and "acquisition tails" for
the browser database timescales were sometimes not enabled or disabled
when acquisition was en-/disabled or moved from/to the browser database.
from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1 aka 2.0.0 (2002-May-05)
- Windows: exchanged the driver with the free (GPL'ed) DSdrv, a driver
developed in the DScaler project (see http://dscaler.org). This
means that I finally can include a Bt8x8 driver with nxtvepg! Many thanks
to e-nek for doing the initial port; also many thanks to John Adcock
and the other members of the DScaler team.
- Windows: simplified the initial setup procedure by adding the possibility
to load configuration files or registry of some well known TV applications
(MoreTV, FreeTV, DScaler, K!TV, MultiDec) to extract their TV card setup.
The channel tables can also be extracted, to allow for network name
synchronization (via the Network name configuration dialog)
- Windows: Prepared the possibility to interact with TV applications. This
allows for the same features that already were available on UNIX with xawtv
This feature is disabled in the regular release as there are no TV apps
yet that support it officially. (The first one will be K!TV, see
<URL:http://perso.wanadoo.fr/quenottetv/>. If you are an author of a
TV app, feel free to mail me if you want to add EPG support to your
application. A demo application and reference implementation are available.)
- Windows: brought back a lost workaround (lost due to a crash of an almost
new Deskstar drive - thank you, IBM) in the Tk83.dll for message boxes
(do not use the native Windows message box from inside Tcl/Tk procedures,
because it sometimes destroys the main window for unkown reasons)
- Fixed bug in support for big-endian CPU architectures: there was an
alignment error in one of the database structures which caused an abort
with a bus error (e.g. on Sun Sparc CPUs); also endian mismatches were
not reported in acquisition daemon connect attempts.
- Fixed bug in the EPG scan that caused a crash 64-bit architectures
(e.g. PowerPC). Thanks to Helge Kreutzmann for reporting this bug.
- Added automatic endian conversion during database reload and acquisition
daemon connections. In earlier versions the reload was simply refused.
Note: the data is still written in the native format and only converted if
neccessary, so there is no performance impact for little-endian machines
(e.g. in contrast to writing always in network byte order)
- Improved channel change handling (handshake between acq master & slave)
- Reduced latency in VPS/PDC decoding after channel changes (the latency
was increased due to a change in 0.7.0)
- UNIX: improved startup of acquisition process/thread; fixed the design bug
due to which the TV tuner was programmed even if the VBI could not be opened.
- Improved hyperlinks in help pages: can now link into sub-sections too,
which is esp. useful for the "Configuration" chapter.
- Fixed a bug in the decoder for language and sub-title information blocks
(currently only broadcasted in France by M6 and Canal+).
from 0.6.4 to 0.7.0 (2002-March-02)
Note that as of this release the database format is changed (due to a
bugfix and several extensions); it's recommended to delete all database
files from the nxtvepg directory before the next program start (expect
to see a few warnings, which you can ignore in this case). Then
start an EPG scan with the option "Refresh only" (this checkbox is
located below the EPG scan message window)
- Added a network connection between the acquisition daemon and the GUI.
While connected, the browser receives updates for opened Nextview databases
(i.e. all incoming EPG blocks are forwarded) and constant updates about
the acquisition progress.
- Added compile-time option to use multi-threading for VBI acquisition
instead of a separate process. The advantage is that the threads are only
created when acquisition is enabled and not when connected to a daemon.
- Added support for wheel mouse in main and help windows,
thanks to Serge Koenigsmann.
- xawtv popup is immediately removed when xawtv is terminated or iconified
- Fixed bug in status line statistics output: expired percentage did not
reach 100% even after the database appeared empty because the total of
"defective" blocks was erronously included in the quotient.
- Added scollbars to network list in network selection dialog and limited
listbox height to 27 networks.
- Added field with official network description in network name config dialog
to avoid confusion in case different stations have similar logos
(e.g. there's "ntv" in Turkey and "n-tv" in Germany)
- Added network name output during EPG scan (e.g. "ARD" instead of "0x0DC1")
generally improved diagnostic output (summary at the end)
- The timescales windows now show all blocks in the database; they used
to start with the current time, omitting all expired blocks.
That was confusing esp. in case all blocks were expired, because the
status line said "100% complete" but no blocks were displayed.
- Added "acquisition tail" to timescales: the most recently updated ranges
are marked with a white bar which fades to the background color over time
- Added callback to timescale windows: mouse click on a scale now filters
the slected netwop in the main window and jumps to the given time
- Fixed bug in database structure which holds navigation menu entries
(a fixed length array was too short and caused memory overwrites)
- Both acquisition and EPG scan now extract channel frequecies from both
databases and rc/ini file, so that in case of loss of either databases
or rc/ini file they still can be recovered.
- Fixed bug which let the browser hang in wait(2) after the process group
was delivered a STOP signal (i.e. CTRL-Z in the controlling terminal)
- Made dialog windows which display lists resizable, e.g. netwop selection
- Bugfix in database merge (yes, yet another one): the merged netwop table
could contain uninitialized entries, if the user network selection contained
networks that were included in none of the merged databases (e.g. remains
of a previous merge with different providers)
- Implemented "Index" filters for merged database; due to technical
limitations currently only "now" & "next" searches are supported; others
will return empty lists. Thanks to Mathias Homann for prompting this fix.
Thanks to Jan Schuster for alpha testing and much useful feedback
and to Mario Kemper for beta testing and adaptions for NetBSD.
from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4 (2001-November-06)
- bugfix database merge: merging used to produce only empty databases, because
zero networks were loaded (the user was forced to manually add networks via
the network selection dialog.) This bug was introduced in version 0.6.2.
Thanks to Mathias Homann and Jan Schubert for reporting this nasty bug.
- bugfix xawtv popup: percentage was displayed as 10000% for programmes
running later than the announced stop time (on channels with VPS/PDC).
Thanks to Ulrich Mueller for the bug report & fix.
from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3 (2001-September-16)
All of these changes are available in the UNIX version only:
- added daemon mode to allow background acquisition without GUI.
added new cmd line opts -daemon and -acqpassive
- signal HUP can now be used to toggle acquisition on and off (with GUI only;
the daemon terminates when acquisition is disabled). Before the signal
used to disable acquisition only.
- fix: catch death of acquisition slave process (i.e. after deadly signal)
and mark acquisition as disabled in the master process.
from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2 (2001-September-07)
- the merged database now only contains those networks that were selected by
the user in the network configuration dialog, and in the same order.
The first change reduces memory and CPU consumption; the second ensures
that programmes with identical start time are presented in order of your
network preference (particularily useful e.g. at 20:15 in Germany)
- fixed daylight saving time handling for Linux: got rid of mktime() in
Julian date to UNIX epoch conversion for incoming PI blocks, so the LTO is
out of the equation. Before the fix, all blocks that were acquired before
a DST change appeared shifted by one hour after the DST had changed.
- fixed "program index" filter: index calculation was broken since an
internal change in the database in release 0.5.1
- fixed Navigate menu: due to a bug the "expire time" filter was undone so
that expired TV programmes showed up in the listing and could not be removed
even by pressing the Reset button.
- improved acquisition strategies for multiple databases in "manual" and
"cyclic" modes by adding a new phase which is entered after one pass over
all databases.
- fixed several possible acquisition cycle "hangups" (i.e. acquisition never
switched to the following provider) which could occur in abnormal situations,
e.g. when a provider did not transmit all blocks that were listed in his AI
inventory, or when the AI was completely empty. Also added a global timeout
of 30 minutes for all acquisition phases.
- added documentation for main window status line in chapter STATISTICS.
Added "?" button to database statistics popup to link to the new description.
- improved timescale popup ("control" menu): time ranges with missing PI blocks
(TV programmes) are now marked gray. Note that the ranges can only be
estimated, as the time range a block covers is not known until the actual
block is available. This is useful when a provider enlarges the preview
range for selected networks only; now you can see which these are.
- improved timescale popup ("control" menu): upon provider or version change
the old content is no longer destroyed before the new one is filled in
so that the popup doesn't flash as much anymore.
- timescales popup: removed restriction that only one time scale popup window
could be opened per database, i.e. the acq time scale popup now remains open
even when the acquisition works on the browser database.
- new item in acq statistics output: added "PI rx repetition", i.e. how often
each block in both streams have been received in average since start of
acquisition.
- fixed bug in database statistics popup: when the popup remained open for
a long time it ate up a lot of CPU, because the refresh every 10 secs
did not correctly delete the previous content.
- added transmission error handling for AI block (as already done for PI):
check if a new block is a equivalent; if yes refuse it if the string segment
(service and network names) has more parity errors than the previous copy.
from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 (2001-August-30)
- fixed bug in GUI: when programme listbox column headers were disabled,
the main window was much too wide (calculated width as pixels, but applied
as if millimeters). Thanks to Peter Suetterlin for the bug report.
- fixed bug in block management which allowed for PI blocks to remain in the
database although the valid network block range was declared void in the AI.
This could result in fill percentages > 100 in the statistic output.
from 0.5.2 to 0.6.0 (2001-August-25)
- possibility to add references to external applications to the context
popup menu in the browser listbox, e.g. to program an alarm timer for the
selected TV show in your favourite scheduler.
- new dialog in the control menu to dump the complete programme list or
selected descriptions into a file in HTML format, from where they can be
loaded by any WWW browser. This may be of interest for people who want to
print out TV schedules.
- added option Match full to the text search dialog to allow exact
title matches, e.g. a search for "heute" will no longer match on
"heute journal" when full match is enabled.
- alphabetically sorted series list in the filter menu.
- internal change only: separated the EPG scan cleanly from the acq control
state machine.
- added RPM spec which allows to install directly from the source tarball
- bugfix Windows-95: the browser listbox cursor always followed movements of
the mouse pointer, even when no button was pressed.
- bugfix in epgblock.c for Power-PC platform; thanks to Gerd Knorr.
from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2 (2001-June-14)
- bugfix programme listbox: the network filter did not follow xawtv channel
changes. Thanks to Werner Renhardt (werner at kangaroo.at)
- bugfix cyclic acquisition (bug was introduced in 0.5.1): expired programmes
were not counted for acquisition statistics, hence sometimes the acq engine
did not detect when the database was complete and did not move on to the
next provider.
from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1 (June/5/2001)
- monitor the _XAWTV_STATION property on the xawtv window and VPS/PDC (during
EPG acquisition) to detect channel changes (new source module epgui/xawtv.c;
communication with xawtv is now done directly via X11 calls, and no longer
uses the xawtv-remote utility)
- after a channel change, optionally set the programme listing's cursor on
the programme currently running on this channel and/or display the programme
title and running time information inside xawtv, either in a popup, as
overlay (requires xfree4 and the XVideo extension) or window title message.
- improved handling of the network name configuration dialog by addition of
a "Closest match in xawtv" button.
- fix: during refresh, the cursor now remains on the same start time and network
- fix: short info text view is no longer set to line 1.0 during every update
- fix: possible crash due to reference to freed memory when acq timescale
popup was open & bad reception (block discarded due to parity errors)
- fix: in cyclic or follow-ui acquisition modes when acquisition was forced
passive on a non-provider channel (e.g. by a busy video device) acq control
did not automatically switch to active when the device was freed.
- fix: network name configuration: name selection from the provider listbox
was handled incorrectly for networks which were not covered by all providers,
so that another than the selected name was actually used.
- added support for multi-network channel names (e.g. [Arte / Kinderkanal])
to network name configuration: split xawtv station names around '/' and
use all resulting segments for matching with Nextview network names.
- added support for Turkish charset in national option table; 6 characters
which are not in latin-1 are replaced by their ASCII counterparts.
- fixed two memory leaks in the EPG scan and wrong handling of the EPG MIP
entry, which slowed down the scan on several channels.
- changed Makefile.win32 to use gcc/mingw32 for compilation. The supplied
Tcl/Tk libraries are compiled with gcc too (on NT using cygwin)
from 0.4.5 to 0.5.0 (Apr. 2001)
- main window is now vertically resizable. The proportions of program listbox
and info text can be adjusted with a "panning" button (slider)
- added "Tune TV" button in the main window to remote control xawtv (UNIX only)
- added network name configuration dialog to sync names with .xawtv
and to allow consistant network naming across all providers
- use channel assignments in .xawtv rc file to speed up EPG scan (UNIX only)
- added "Update filter shortcut" dialog to the filter menu to simplify changing
existing shortcuts
- made handling of filter shortcut dialog fool-proof
- added filter settings description to the shortcut configuration dialog.
Removed the filter combination checkboxes (were disabled anyway)
- added acquisition mode "external" for Composite/S-Video input source (or
unknown win32 tuner types) Win32: suppressed obsolete acq mode "passive".
- fixed command line option -rcfile for Win32: backslash chars in path vanished
- restructured software to simplify reuse as library in other projects
from 0.4.4 to 0.4.5 (Mar. 2001)
- fixed bug in NetBSD daylight saving time handling, due to which programmes
were shifted by 60 minutes. Thanks to Mario Kemper for the patch.
- fixed bug in Tcl proc LoadRc, due to which rc reload failed.
Thanks to Dan Lindstroem for the patch (Dan.Lindstroem@t-online.de)
from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4 (Feb. 2001)
- please note my new email address: tomzo at nefkom.net
- fixed severe bug in database reload (reference to freed block;
curiously this led to crashes under Windows only)
- fixed compatibility with old bttv driver versions (versions <= 0.6.x produced
error "VIDIOCSCHAN: operation not supported" during TV channel changes)
- added detection of lost VBI frames (Linux, for debugging/optimization only)
- added frequency table for France; minor fixes in Western Europe table;
tables can be selected via the TV card input popup
- updated tuner type table for Windows Bt8x8 driver -> support for new tuners
- implemented hyperlinks in help pages for references between chapters
from 0.4.pre2 to 0.4.3 (Feb. 2001)
- fixed various glitches in acquisition mode handling and warnings
- added warning when acq mode is forced passive due to non-tuner input source
- finally added chapter about merged databases to documentation
- split off EPG scan sources from epgacqctl.c into separate module epgscan.c
- temp workaround for merged db statistics: supress unsupported categories
- improved presentation of merged descriptions: suppress redundant text
- added transmission error handling: do not replace equivalent block with a
copy with more parity errors (in the string segment)
- introduced EPG scan options "Slow" and "Refresh" for bad reception or
database loss, respectively
- added OI header and message to provider selection popup
- network selection popup: added possibility to copy CNI order and suppression
between providers
- added infos to README about Windows driver installation; thanks to Mario.
- browser listbox format now configurable: now columns can be freely selected
from 16 attribute types, including title, time, date, theme, ratings, etc.
- added browser listbox column header buttons with drop-down menus
- fixed substring search with latin-1 chars: did not work due to new internal
encoding in Tcl 8.3 (UTF8)
- fixed dynamic menus on Win32 (e.g. context menu, series menu, Navigate):
Windows does not generate unmap event, hence the menu content always
remained the same, regardless of PI selection or even provider changes
- fixed program crash on Win32 while error MessageBox was displayed via Tcl:
crashed when the mouse was moved from the desktop directly into the main win
from 0.4.pre1 to 0.4.pre2 (Jan. 2001)
- Added status line below browser window for db coverage and acq status
- Statistics windows now available separately for browser and acq databases.
Added pie chart in addition to history diagram.
- Acquisition statistics are now updated even while no EPG reception, to
allow analysis of reception trouble. Added output of VPS/PDC CNI.
- NetBSD: patch from Mario to fix possible hangup of VBI slave after an
external /dev/video application is terminated.
- Windows Bt8x8 driver: added PLL init for 35MHz; Improved driver start on NT;
Fixed blue screen during shutdown and crashes: exceptions and the shutdown
message are now catched and the driver stopped before the program exits;
Disabled registry hack for legal reasons.
from 0.4.pre0 to 0.4.pre1 (Jan. 2001)
- presentation of descriptions of merged databases improved
by adding a separator image (horizontal line) between the texts.
- added support for Net/Free/OpenBSD Unix in btdrv4linux by Mario Kemper
- described Windows installation in more depth and length in the README file
- compatibility with Windows driver version 4.00
- updated registry hack for Windows Bt8x8 driver 4.31 and later
- command line can take database path as last argument
This is intended for Windows, to be able to drag and drop a database file
onto the executable, but can generally be used to set -dbdir and -provider
- added warning messages for database reload errors or missing frequencies
from 0.3.4 to 0.4.pre0 (Dec. 2000)
- added possibility to merge several provider databases into one
- cyclic acquisition between several databases
- added TV input configuration popup
- added Help button to all popups
order of Help, Abort, Ok identical in all popups
- port to M$ Windows (in new module epgvbi/btdrv4win.c)
from 0.3.3 to 0.3.4 (Nov. 2000)
- added -demo cmd line option for users without live Nextview reception
from 0.3.2 to 0.3.3 (Oct. 2000)
- fixed bug in context menu: arbitrary themes could get listed (pifilter.c)
- fixed possible heap corruption in string conversion (epgblock.c)
from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2 (Oct. 2000)
- fixed bug (SIGSEGV) in CreateContextMenu()
- fixed bug in epgui.tcl, proc DeleteSortCritSelection: deletion failed
- added -c to install in Makefile for NetBSD compatibility
- added credits to manpage
from 0.02a to 0.3.1 (Sep./Oct. 2000)
- added netwop, start time & sorting criterion filters to menus & shortcuts
- fixed bugs in shortcut selection: series were not set in the menu checkbuttons
and series filter not disabled in filter context after deselection
- automatic shortcut deselection when it's filters are manually undone
- timescale windows are reloaded after AI version changed and
not closed anymore upon provider change
- created manual page & help menu
- added install rule to Makefile and added installations instructions to README
- changed default for db directory to /usr/tmp/nxtvepg; added option -dbdir
- added command line option -card for alternate vbi & video devices
(needed when there's more than one TV card)
- added context menu, invoked by right mouse button: allows quick filter
selection, depending on currently selected title
- show copyright & helpful message if no provider known or db empty
- added programme title & feature summary to short-info field
- fixed LTO (GMT offset) computation during daylight saving time
from 0.01a to 0.02a
- added rc/ini file to save filter shortcuts and other config options
- added netwop configuration for general exclusion of non-receptable
netwops and for personalized network ordering
- added command line options (UNIX only)
- added shortcut add&edit popup and implemented "merge" mode
- added EPG scan and "active acquisition mode"; the tuner is set
to the chanel of the selected ui db, if possible (UNIX only)
- maintain list of "obsolete" PI, i.e. PI that could not be added
to the db or are expired. This now allows to generate an exact
statistic on how many blocks on the range given in AI were
acquired.
